Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
12 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Belligerence
|
n. revealing hostility and a readiness to fight
|
|
|
Cadence
|
n. intonation of the voice
n. measured movement, such as in music and writing |
|
|
Clemency
|
n. mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy
|
|
|
Dirge
|
n. a funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning
|
|
|
Frugality
|
n. the quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily
|
|
|
Hiatus
|
n. a break or interruption of something; a gap; a pause
|
|
|
Penury
|
n. extreme poverty
|
|
|
Perdition
|
n. condition of the soul lost in eternal punishment
|
|
|
Plagiarism
|
n. the act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one's own
|
|
|
Precursor
|
n. a person who or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office
|
|
|
Sanction
|
n. authoritative permission for an action
n. penalty imposed to encourage compliance to law |
|
|
Trajectory
|
n. the direction of an object through space
n. a course taken |
